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Does emotional association to words affect memory recall of words
Emotions
Sadness
Anger
Joy
Fear
Excitement
An emotion is a mental state
Emotional association
Has a strong impact on attention
Memory recall
Can be affected by factors
Stress
mental health
attention
Retrieving memories from it's past
Ethics
Confidentiality
The results will not be assigned to participants names, rather an ID.
Right to withdraw
All participants may withdraw the study at any time
Voluntary participation
All participants choose to be a participant (by choice)
Accurate recording
All results will be recorded accurately and properly
Informed Consent
All participants are aware of the details of the study and agree to it
Debrief
All participants will be informed on all information included in the study of which they may not have been aware of beforehand due to jeopardising the study.
Do no harm
Participants must not be negatively affected by the study, mentally or physically.
Sample
Audience
People aged 26 to 30
Issues: very specific age range
Region
South Australia
Issues: not a very specific geographic sample.
Size
~100 people (relatively large yet doable)
Variables
Control
Participants
The participants will remain the same to ensure a fair experiment
Participants in each group
The participants will remain in the same groups to ensure a fair experiment
Dependent variable
Words recalled
The amount of words each participant recalls is the dependent variable, and is reliant on the independent variable.
Independent variable
Audio recording listened to
The independent variable is the audio recording listened to, and thus whether or not there is emotional association involved.
Extraneous variable
Prior knowledge of participants
Participants with prior association with words may find them easier or harder to remember. This would create unfair results, and reduce the legitimacy of the experiment.
Memory skills (or lack of) of participants
Participants with less adept memory skills will have more trouble remembering words, and may create outlying results. In contrast to this, participants with better memory skills will find it easier to remember words, creating outlying results.
Data measurement
Participants write down as many words as they can remember
Marked by a single person who isn't a participant
Data representation
Results can be shown in a side by side graph in which the difference between groups will be highlighted.
Experimental design
advantages
Results are clear cut, thus easy to record and discuss
Results can be replicated, and the experiment can be repeated
Obvious conclusions on cause and effect
Disadvantages
must be tightly controlled to achieve legitimate results
Unrealistic environment
Participants may act differently because they know it's an experiment